DK Metcalf
PITWR40 · overall #95 · tier 8 · age 28
Projected points
130
8.7/gm
Value over replacement
19
repl 119
Range
64–196
sd 66
Week
7.4
@ CLE
Why this ranking
hand-set 2026-09-03
To WR33 on 13 Aug, matching three independent drafter pools. RE-PRICED 3 Sep, 138.0 -> 129.6, because the board drifted out from under that claim and the claim was a RANK against those pools. He had reached WR25 against ADP 33, ECR 31, consensus 33 and Underdog 35 -- ABOVE all four, having been written to sit level with them. The number never moved; the board did, which is exactly the failure mode an absolute total written against a board that rebuilds four times a day is prone to. 129.6 over 14.0 games is 9.26/g, still a long way under his own 11.60 half-PPR/g, and under Sleeper's 152.3 -- so re-pricing toward the pools does not make this an aggressive cut, it restores the one that was intended. The band is dense here: eight ranks cost 8.4 points, against Xavier Worthy's eight ranks for 3.2 in the WR40s. That is why this one is worth re-pricing and his is not. Target column now states WR33 so the drift check watches it from here. BASIS CORRECTED 3 SEP. The comparison above originally quoted `obs_ppr_pg`, which is FULL PPR, against a projection the board computes in HALF PPR. Every such figure in this file has been replaced with the player's own half-PPR rate, measured from nflverse weekly data over his whole career. Receptions are the whole difference, so the error scaled with target volume and was largest for receivers.
This is a view, not a correction — the model said something different and was overruled. See how it works.
Projected usage
opportunity over the projected season
- Targets
- 89
- Carries
- 0
- Receptions
- 54
- Rec yards
- 735
- Rush yards
- 2
- Rush TD
- 0.1
- Rec TD
- 4.9
- Total TD
- 5.0
- Games projected
- 14.9
- Observed pts/gm (history)
- 12.8
- Games of history
- 63
- Age multiplier
- 0.908
- Usage carryover
- 0.90
Team context
what scales this projection
- Neutral sec / play
- 33.5
- Projected plays / game
- 61.4
- Projected pass rate
- 57%
- OL run block
- -0.51
- OL pass protection
- +0.02
- OL continuity
- 65%
- 2TE rate
- 45%
- 3WR rate
- 52%
- 1st-down pass rate
- 45%
- Run friendly
- -0.86
- Scheme creativity
- -0.29
- Play action / motion
- 21% / 51%
Situation
ambiguity widens the projection range
- Label
- new head coach, committee
- Ambiguity score
- 98
- Effective contributors
- 3.82
- Top player's share
- 42%
- New play-caller
- yes
- Variance multiplier
- 2.55
Trade window
schedule-driven buy / sell timing
- Action
- hold
- Window weeks
- 4-6
- Window opponents
- CLE,IND,TB
- Window matchup
- +0.09
- Opponents after
- NO,CLE
- After matchup
- +0.25
- Flip edge
- -0.16
- Buy basis
- recent form
- Bye week
- 9
- Playoff schedule (15-17)
- +0.01
2025 game log
full season · Standard
Games
15
Points
128.2
Per game
8.55
17-gm pace
145
Best / worst
18.6 / 0.6
Pace extrapolates the selected weeks over 17 games. It is what that stretch was worth, not a projection — no availability, matchup or regression adjustment is applied.
| Wk | Pts | Rank | Tgt | Rec | Re Yds | Re TD | Att | Ru Yds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8.3 | WR25 | 7 | 4 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 8.0 | WR40 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 9.2 | WR27 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 18.6 | WR5 | 5 | 5 | 126 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 15.5 | WR7 | 9 | 4 | 95 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 5.0 | WR42 | 5 | 3 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 11.5 | WR11 | 7 | 5 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 0.6 | WR91 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 3.5 | WR49 | 7 | 3 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 4.9 | WR41 | 8 | 5 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 9.4 | WR22 | 8 | 5 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| 13 | 3.2 | WR54 | 5 | 3 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | 14.8 | WR7 | 12 | 7 | 148 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | 11.5 | WR16 | 3 | 3 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | 4.2 | WR51 | 9 | 4 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 |